Garching is booming.
With the result that there is a need for living space in the city.
But where should it be made and what should it look like?
The Garching Greens dealt with the topic in a virtual panel discussion.
Garching
- 29 spectators took part in the discussion to which the Garching Greens had invited Christian Hierneis, member of the state parliament.
With the construction areas on the Schleissheim Canal and in the communication zone, the city will grow by around 6,000 inhabitants in the coming years.
Looking back over the past ten years, every inhabitant of Garching has used 195 square meters of settlement and transport space.
"With the increase of around 2300 inhabitants in the past ten years, this makes a total of around 40.5 hectares," explained Hierneis.
This raises questions as to whether there are any reserves of land left, for example for recreation, nature conservation or agriculture, whether the buildings are suitable for climate change or whether the next generation still has scope for other uses.
For Walter Kratzl (City Councilor Greens) this is unhealthy growth.
The resulting infrastructure follow-up costs are not manageable for him.
In this regard, it is best to use controlled growth on areas that have already been sealed and that have good transport links.
There is also the possibility of converting unused commercial space, which, according to Hierneis, is increasing in the course of increasing home office work, into living space.
He also sees a very important point in the construction of company apartments: "Companies willing to settle should and must also take responsibility for creating the necessary living space for their employees."
Affordable housing
Hans-Peter Adolf (City Councilor Greens) is certain that the creation of new living space will by no means relieve the housing market, because it is about creating affordable living space and thus the question: How do you want to build?
The fact that Garching is confronted with the problem of insufficiently affordable housing is just as much a fault of the city, according to Harald Kirchner, as the fact that it has not given any thought to the follow-up infrastructure costs for too long.
“You woke up too late,” says Kirchner, who also fears that the city will gradually lose its identity.
"Lots of people live here, but they don't live here."
Since Garching has reached the threshold of 20 euros per newly built square meter, for Adolf and Götz Braun (City Councilor SPD) the “socially just land use” (SoBoN), but also the cooperative one, remain the regulatory elements in the new communication zone , social and income-oriented subsidized housing.
If you give building land into the hands of investors, “they act exclusively for profit and want to get the most out of it.
We have to give a lot into the hands of those who want to live there for several generations and who want to realize social living.
Here I absolutely go with the Greens, ”emphasized Braun.
Also that one should stick to the land use plan fixed in 2019.
“I don't want any further coverage beyond that,” said Braun.
The green surrounding Garching must be kept in its compact form.
Citizen interests
Leo van Hemmen demanded that construction should be carried out for the university town of Garching and thus for the employees of TUM and the institutes located there.
“Take care of the people who work here.
That has been neglected for far too long. ”However, in order to change anything on the housing market in the Munich area, the pressure in Munich“ has to be taken out of the pocket, where there is almost no development potential for apartments, ”said Hemmen. In his eyes the communication zone could be however, be the right step to bring home and work together again.
Listener Josef Märtz would have liked to see this 31 hectare area divided into smaller pieces of five hectares, which would then have been built on in a structured manner.
Märtz complained that the citizens' interests had not been heard enough, "here better solutions would have been possible".